Mike Pence is about to give the most important speech of his political life. And it should go just fine, if Donald Trump doesn’t materialize from the mist again, like a character from “This Is Spinal Tap,” so he can muscle in on the microphone and cut Pence off at every third word.

Trump and Pence sounded like a newly married couple trying to persuade immigration agents that they really had fallen madly in love, despite the fact that they met the week before and one of them needed a green card.

Pence kept referring to Trump as “this man” and “this good man,” as if he wasn’t quite sure whether the two of them had yet reached a first-name basis and it was safer just to be oblique. A sour-faced Trump interrupted Pence constantly and actually granted him permission to speak for himself — out loud, more than once.

Before the pick was made public last week, Christie commented that as a competitive person he didn’t like losing out to anyone but there were no such remarks Monday other than Christie — himself an unsuccessful presidential candidate — saying he was his own first choice for president, not Trump.

“We need a strong, resolute and unequivocal voice for freedom … and we haven’t had it for eight years,” said Christie, adding, “If you are not working for Donald Trump, you’re working for (presumptive Democratic nominee) Hillary Clinton.”

Christie — who as a key surrogate for then-nominee Mitt Romney roused the Michigan delegation in Tampa four years ago — was the first major Trump supporter to come before the state’s group, getting loud cheers from those in the group who voiced their belief for — and support of — Christie becoming Trump’s attorney general should the Republican win.

Investigators have linked a seventh homicide, as well as three additional shootings that left two people hurt and a vehicle damaged, to the man they are now publicly referring to as the “serial street shooter.”

The Phoenix Police Department says 55-year-old Krystal Annette White was likely the second casualty in a three-month shooting spree that is now tied to incidents between March 17 and June 12. White’s body was discovered about 4:30 a.m. April 19 in the 500 block of North 32nd Street.

The addition of White’s case expands the geographical scope of the investigation considerably. While the suspect was only initially tied to four shootings that killed six people in Maryvale, the addition of White’s case links the shooter to a crime scene clear across town.

In his first public event since last week’s deadly ambush of Dallas police officers, Donald Trump on Monday called for an end to hostility to the nation’s law enforcement and insisted that he is the “law and order” candidate in the presidential race.

Speaking to an invited audience in what is expected to be battleground state this fall, Trump was here to promote his proposals on improving care for the nation’s military veterans. But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who read from a teleprompter, kicked off his remarks with a lengthy statement of support for the country’s law enforcement officers amid turmoil prompted by a spate of deadly police shootings.

Trump called last Thursday’s ambush in Dallas, which left five police officers dead and several others injured, “an attack on our country.” He likened the current mood among many toward law enforcement officers to the harassment and hostility faced by soldiers serving in the Vietnam War, which he described as an “ugly chapter” in the nation’s history.

“America’s police and law enforcement personnel are what separate our civilization from total chaos and the destruction of our country as we know it,” he said. “It is time for hostility against our police and against all members of law enforcement to end and end immediately, right now.”